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Protect Virtual Servers running VMware, Xen, Hyper-V, or Parallels
Server consolidation is driving deployment of virtualization across enterprises of all sizes. However, to fully realize the benefits of virtualization, organizations must consider their information recovery management strategy.
Traditional backup and recovery strategies are not adequate to deliver the granular recovery demanded by the business. More important, the cost associated with traditional or agent based technologies essentially negates many of the cost advantages of virtualization.
Traditional agent-based backup and recovery force the enterprise into a series of unattractive choices. Agent based technologies pollute the virtual environment. Agents, by their nature, lack cohesion. The need to physically install and manage agents on each application within the virtual server and each machine on the LAN is time and labor intensive. A single agent adds as much as 16% server overhead to each application. Add to that the security risk and cost of each agent and it becomes quite clear that agent-based backup and recovery dramatically impacts the TCO and performance of the virtual environment.
PI Recovery Cloud Backup & Recovery provides a robust feature set ideal for virtual environments
PI Recovery Cloud Backup & Recovery enables the enterprise to maximize their virtualization strategy while achieving superior information protection and recovery management without performance degradation.
PI Recovery DS-Client agentless backup/restore has been tested and certified on a very wide range of virtualization platforms including:
- VMware VSphere 4, ESX 3.5, ESX 3.0, ESXi, Workstation and Server
- Citrix XenSource
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Parallels and Virtuozzo Container
VM Data Protection
PI Recovery Cloud Backup removes many of the traditional hassles associated with the protection and recovery of VMs. It meets new data protection requirements that VMware ESX creates by:
- Discovering new guest VMs
- Centralizing backup configuration and management
- Controlling software licensing costs
- Minimizing initial backup job configuration and ongoing management
- Providing multiple backup options
- Providing backup options specific to VMware
- Broad application and operating system support
Reigning in VMware Costs and Complexity
The often forgotten part of the equation in implementing VMware server environments is reigning in the ensuing costs and complexity that VMware introduces. Nowhere do these management costs and complexity become more evident than when a company goes to protect its guest VMs on its VMware ESX servers.
PI Recovery gives you the opportunity to change that equation. By delivering the means to auto-discover guest VMs on individual VMware ESX servers and coupling that with the agentless backup of guest VMs using CDP, incremental or VMDK-based forms of backups, PI Recovery fundamentally changes how companies can protect their VMware environment going forward. | 
